"There had been aggressive forecasting about capital spending," says Samargedlis. "It's tailored back a bit, with more spending on core business, complex applications and infrastructures," he says. "There's more maintenance spend taking place," he says. Still, plans for new projects haven't been cancelled, but rather are slightly delayed from starting, he says.
Hudson has seen strong demand for skills involving databases, Java and .Net as well as project managers, he says.
Finally, on a regional basis, salaries for tech talent in Illinois are expected to rise 4.2% for IT staff and 4.3% for IT managers in the upcoming fiscal year, according to a new report released on Wednesday from the Illinois IT Association.
According to the ITA study, the average salary for a CIO or chief technology officer in that state is $149, 264. Add bonuses and that average figure grows to $168, 210.
Meanwhile, in Illinois, a senior technology architect earns an average salary of $109,237 and a junior software engineer earns $66,754. When bonuses are added, those respective pay packages rise to an average of $120,308 and $70,504
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